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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1993
Filed:
May. 02, 1991
Stephen Palmacci, Walpole, MA (US);
Lee Josephson, Arlington, MA (US);
Advanced Magnetics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In a method for the synthesis of a colloid including a superparamagnetic metal oxide coated with a polymer, an acidic solution of a metal salt and a polymer may be cooled, and then neutralized by the controlled addition of a cool solution of a base, and may then be converted, by the application of heat, to a homogenous superparamagnetic metal oxide colloid. According to a preferred embodiment, the polymer may be a polysaccharide. In a further embodiment of the invention, the polysaccharide may be dextran and the metal salt may be ferrous and ferric salts, which produces, according to the methods of the invention, a superparamagnetic iron oxide colloid with an extended plasma half-life.